Overall Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jan 2017 20:37 UTC

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M 5.2 in Papua New Guinea on 24 Jan 2017 20:37 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1103987
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	-6.0855 , 154.1774
Event Date:	24 Jan 2017 20:37 UTC 25 Jan 2017 06:37 Local
Exposed Population:	About 34000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Jan 2017 18:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007v93	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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